MPire partners with eBay to launch new shopping comparison service

[regic]

The former president of Expedia thinks he's found another high growth opportunity.

Matt Cullet, CEO of Mpire.com, said the new Internet shopping service, which launches today, will bring together listings from eBay, Yahoo, Overstock, and Craigslist. Users will be able to filter results by price, time left to make a purchase, marketplace, geographic location, and vendor...

"We provide analytics: the true market value, the average sale price for the last 30 days, and a historical pricing trend. That s the core of what we re doing different."...

Mpire will generate the analytics using data eBay agreed to share...

full article: http://www.internetnews.com/ec-news/article.php/3612616

[mandy]

The ComparisonEngines.com blog has a review of the new Mpire shopping comparison engine:

At the core of Mpire is the ability to see the average price for the item, a historical price range, a 30 day price trend (with graph), and the average shipping price for the item. In other words, Mpire is looking at a ton of data, cutting it every which way, and presenting it to the user in a useful format…or as they like to say “we’re the Kelly’s Blue Book for everything else.” One reporter talks about Mpire as a ‘comparison shopping engine for used products,’ but I think that’s only a very small part of the picture.

With all the information Mpire is collecting about auctions and classified listings, there’s an incredible opportunity to slice and dice the data to help shoppers buy more intelligently. Almost seems like a Channel Intelligence for the consumer...

full article: http://www.comparisonengines.com/2006/06...powerment/

[regic]

A link to the site would be helpful. 

http://www.mpire.com/buyer/search.page

Seller info: http://www.mpire.com/products/seller.html